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Straws should be avoided instead of making alternatives.

• belinder 4y ago
  What about metal straws, reusable and dont break
  • dymk 4y ago
    Feels bad on the teeth and is a good way to lobotomize yourself if you trip
    • picture 4y ago
      And enormous embodied energy. They are not any better for the environment unless you use a metal straw for like 10 years
      • TeMPOraL 4y ago
        This is what we get when we make decisions based on panicked masses and noise they generate in the news. That banning plastic straws made zero sense, and was actually counterproductive to humanity's survival in general (distracting from and confusing people about climate change), was obvious to anyone who paused to do some basic math. But people who kept panicking each other about it didn't, and people making the decisions seemingly didn't either (or they did, and went through with it anyway, just to shut the "environmentalists" up). I fear the same will be the case here - I mean, the very term, "forever chemicals", is already a clear giveaway that the topic is discussed and reasoned about in nonsensical categories. Occasional scientific paper that tries to navigate around this term won't help when the overall discussion is consumed by magical thinking.
• Cthulhu_ 4y ago
  Straws are easy low hanging fruit that make individuals / consumers feel guilty and like they're doing a good thing, it does not have a measurable impact on the environment.